Open Educational Resources

Open Author helps you build Open Educational Resources, lesson plans, and courses (on your own, or with others) — and then publish them, to the benefit of educators and learners everywhere.

Affordable Learning Georgia offers a step-by-step guide split into modules for creating or adapting OER.

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder. Download to use.

Create charts, diagrams, images, etc. through Canva. You will need to make a free account to be able to use.

GIMP is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, converting between different image formats, and more specialized tasks. Download to Use.

Quickly create screenshots of a selected region, window or fullscreen; you can even capture complete (scrolling) web pages from your internet browser Easily annotate, highlight, or obscure parts of the screenshot. Export the screenshot in various ways: save to file, send to printer, copy to clipboard, attach to e-mail, send Office programs or upload to photo sites like Flickr or Picasa, and others. Download to Use

Inkscape is a free and open-source vector graphics editor; it can be used to create or edit vector graphics such as illustrations, diagrams, line arts, charts, logos and complex paintings. Download to Use.

Create Flowcharts and Diagrams for Free!

OpenStax is part of Rice University, which is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable corporation. As an educational initiative, it's our mission to improve educational access and learning for everyone. Through our partnerships with philanthropic foundations and our alliance with other educational resource companies, we're breaking down the most common barriers to learning. Because we believe that everyone should and can have access to knowledge.

Easily create professional print and ebook editions of your book.

An uncomplicated XML vocabulary for authors of research articles, textbooks, and monographs.

Educators and students turn to ScreenPal, formerly Screencast-O-Matic, for easy screen recording and video editing.

Designed for educators, curriculum developments, instructional designers and students who need an easy-to-use, yet powerful platform that enables them to create-their-own engaging, media-rich learning content that is portable and flexible.